Bengaluru: Harassed by hubby over treatment cost, heart patient ends life

BENGALURU: Upset over her husband’s insistence that expenses for her

heart

ailment be borne by her parents, a 26-year-old homemaker

hanged

herself at her residence in Manjunatha Nagar, near

RT Nagar

, on Tuesday midnight.


RT Nagar

police

said Lakshmi Sharma was also being harassed by her husband Dharmananda Sharma to divorce him. Dharmananda, his father Krishnakumar and mother Sharavati were arrested on Wednesday and remanded in judicial custody.

An investigating officer said Lakshmi had left a suicide note explaining the torture she underwent.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)